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Why do you doubt that? I'm curious. I, for one, don't see any reason to doubt that people will be shipping Perl programs in bytecode form without source code.

Of course CPAN modules will (I would think) be universally available as source code, but there are many other ways to distribute software besides CPAN.

print substr("Just another Perl hacker", 0, -2);
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Re^6: Perl 6... do we need another vm?
by adrianh (Chancellor) on Sep 10, 2006 at 08:45 UTC
    Why do you doubt that?

    Because I think that the vast majority of Perl code that gets distributed in the Perl world is going to be open source - which doesn't work without that whole "source" thang :-)

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      How often do you download the source and compile your kernel yourself? I know some people do it all the time. I don't, and neither do most of the rest of the Linux users out there. I use apt-get to install a new kernel binary. I do the same with basically all the rest of the software I install.

      print substr("Just another Perl hacker", 0, -2);
      		 - apotheon
      CopyWrite Chad Perrin

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        How often do you download the source and compile your kernel yourself? I know some people do it all the time. I don't, and neither do most of the rest of the Linux users out there. I use apt-get to install a new kernel binary. I do the same with basically all the rest of the software I install.

        Yes, but the source is trivially accessible if I need it.

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